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um, versus, what? Yeah, my signature describes one facet of my professional life. :-)

It's not exactly what you want, but check the man page for pmset -- what you seek (a cool idea) is somewhere down that path, I expect. :-)

I'm seeking some way cool shell scripts that are specifically for Mac OS X. Anyone have one to nominate? And/or one they'd like to see? Thanks!!

I really like the "check spelling as you type" feature in Safari since I spend a lot of time typing into text input boxes (like this one!). Anyone know if there's a way to permanently enable this rather than having to select it each time? For that matter, is there any way to access the OSX...

You bet. That's off the mystery Debug menu in Safari, which you can enable by copying and pasting the following snippet into a terminal window:defaults write com.apple.Safari IncludeDebugMenu '<true/>' It changes a default configuration so you only have to do it once, then quit and restart...

Check this out: file:///Applications/Safari.app/Contents/Resources/English.lproj/Shortcuts.html :-)

My two cents: I've been using Safari for a few hours too, and it rocks! I'm very impressed. I only had one weirdness when I had disabled popups (yay!), quit, and then started up again. Safari didn't want to open ANY windows, even a new main window from the File menu. Re-enabled popups and all...

Note that there's a bit of a glitch with locate.updatedb: when it runs from the root cron job, it actually runs as user 'nobody', but if you do it by hand, I bet you did 'sudo /usr/libexec/locate.updatedb'. The difference is that running as root means it indexes EVERY file, even those that you...

You can also just do: 1,31 * * * * or similar, but, theoretically, the interval you're specifying should work. See the crontab(5) man page for details.

find / -type f -name "*.mp3" -ls | awk '{ sum += $7 } END { print "total size: " sum }' This exploits the -ls output of find and lets us sidestep the problem of worrying about filenames with spaces: field seven is the size of the file in bytes, and the awk snippet sums up all the matching...

The only reason that you're not getting what you want is that you haven't quoted the $< value. Try this: #!/bin/csh echo -n "Enter a few words: " set input1=$< echo -n "and a few more words: " set input2="$<" echo "First input = $input1" echo "Second input = $input2" exit 0 :-)

and your email address / web site? :-)

Excellent suggestion! I just checked out their product line and it looks like it could be a definite winner. I'm still curious about the groupware capabilities of iCal, though, since iCal definitely wins in the "cool appearance" category!

I'm working with a non-profit foundation and they've amazingly seen the light and are all running Mac OS X. They've asked me if I know of any group calendar application for MacOS and after having poked around, all I can find is iCal, yet I've also read that the group calendar features aren't yet...

Actually, I'd approach it this way: cd to the path you want, then... find . -mtime +14 -print0 | xargs -0 rm -f This would find all files that hadn't been accessed in more than 14 days, then feed the filename list, en masse, to xargs, which clumps 'em and lets rm go at it. This is...

So not to sound cranky, but does anyone have any information about running GNOME 2.0 within the Jaguar environment? I imagine there's a group of folk porting/testing... any suggestions on how to find 'em? Thanks!!

Glad to know that, but I am particularly interested in the 2.0 release of GNOME... :-)

I have a pretty solid X window server running on my Jaguar systems (Tenon's Xtools, a beta Jag-compatible release) and would really - really - like to be able to run GNOME 2.0 within that environment. I'm interested in OpenOffice too, but, alas, don't have the time / bandwidth to help debug the...

Dude, you don't need to use netstumbler. Try MacStumbler instead! http://www.macstumbler.com/ btw, if there are other wardriving utils for Mac, I'd like to hear about 'em. Just for academic interest, of course. ;)

Try this: #!/bin/sh for filename in *.gif do newfname="`echo $filename | sed 's/.gif/.jpg/'`" echo "renaming $filename to $newfname" mv $filename $newfname done exit 0 There's more we can do with this, but this'll suffice for now, I hope. :-)